Word: half-hour
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...Conways sobers us even as it entertains and captures our attention. And like Kay, when we leave this party of bright young men and women with so much hope for the future, we are not caught up by its drunken dizziness and general warmth, which dissipate in a half-hour: instead, we depart saddened, but with a bit of wisdom that is more valuable and more lasting...
...TRANSITIONS from story to story make no pretense of being other than jarring, and the slapstick grows redundant at times, whether in self-parody or not. As the stories go on for a combined 400 pages, the devices that serve a half-hour TV show become, at times, painful. In contrast to television, which is fanatically purged of everything outside the common denominator. Burgess is resolutely idiosyncratic...
Gail says he didn't have as hard a time readjusting to civilization as he thought he would He trained as much as he could for a marathon in which he finished 38th three weeks after coming home Included in his training was a half-hour run in 102 below, zero weather, which he thinks may be some sort of record...
Beren and Beckman finished off Lions Martella and Neil Handelsman in a half-hour, 6-0, 6-2, leaving teammates Howard Sands and Larry Scott to play for another hour...
...reaction in Peking was fast and furious. In a chilly half-hour meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu delivered a stiff protest to American Ambassador Arthur Hummel Jr. Social contacts with American diplomats in China were instantly chilled, and cultural and athletic exchange programs were suspended for the rest of the year, the first official downgrading of ties by Peking since diplomatic relations between the two countries were formally restored in January 1979. At the minimum, the Hu Na incident symbolized the growing tensions between the Reagan Administration and the People's Republic. "The U.S. Government has kept doing...